February 23, 2013

Inner Essence

I was speaking recently with a collector who was attempting to choose from among the hundreds of images we include on the gallery website. He described looking through every image and said that although he couldn't articulate it exactly, it seemed to him, as he clicked through image after image, that there was a "personality" evident that was more than the subject matter would suggest -- something abstract and transcendent.

I was flattered -- he has a discriminating eye -- and thanked him for the observation. Later in the week I came across this quote that described, perhaps better than he could, what he experienced:

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. — Eckhart Tolle